Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was a prolific and widely respected African-American poet. Clifton...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
Maya Angelou lived many lives in her 86 years. She was an author, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist. However, she will...
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs...
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before...
i am accused of tending to the pastas if i made it,as if i sculpted itwith my own hands. i did not.this past was waiting for mewhen i came,a monstrous unnamed...
Gil Scott-Heron was the African American poet, novelist, musician, and songwriter known primarily for his work as a...
Harriet E. Wilson is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of...
My favourite anthology is Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, and I am fortunate to have a signed hardback copy in my collection. Busby opened her introduction with Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem...
What matters is the renewing and long running kinship. Seeking common mission, willing work, memory, melody, song Marriage...
Ossie Davis was one of the most recognized and influential African American performers and activists of the late...
Poet João da Cruz e Sousa, (November 24, 1861-March 19, 1898) was the leading figure of the Symbolist movement in Brazil. Called the Cisne Negro (“Black Swan”) by his contemporaries, his...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
